Improvement in boots and shoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FEANOIS D. BALLON, OF ABINGTON, ASSIGNOE TO ALFRED E. ELY, OF

A BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. i

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,614, dated July 4, 1865.

l'o all whom it 'may concern.' r

Be it known that I, FRANCIS D. BALLOU, of Abington, in the countyot' Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Article of Boot and Shoe Manufacture; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and Operation ofthe same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichu Figure l is a view of the Sole ot a channeled shoe with a portion of the stitches exposed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section through the sole at the line of stitching, and Fig. 3 is a view of an enlarged toe of the shoe to which my invention is applied.

It is the object ot' lny invention to manufacturebootsamlshoesby sewingthesolesthrough and through by machinery, which 4shall place all the stitching on the outside of the uppers.

Letters Patent have been granted to me for improvements in machinery for making boots and shoes, and l do not therefore propose to claim any machinery in this application, for my present invention consists in a new article Vof manufacture constituting a boot or shoe in which the sole is sewed onto a welt or tap (attached to the upper) by mechanism which places all the stitching outside of the upper.

When the boot or shoe is SO far completed as to have its welt or top, or the equivalent ot' either, properly secured to the upper and lasted, the outer Sole is cut and placed upon it. Then the boot or shoe is brought to the sewing-machine, and is so placed aSto receive the concatenation Ot' stitches all around the sole on the outside of the upper, but so close to the upper as to present a neat tinish. When necessary, the outer sole may be'channeled, as shown in Fig. 1 at A; but it is obvious thatthe channeling may be dispensed with.

I propose to use wax-thread and the sin gle chain-stitch shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but do not limit myself to either.

It is obvious that with machinery having a suitable feeding mechanism I can place the stitches with perfect regularity in the seam, as in Fig. 3, and that by proper guards between the sole and upper the piercing-instrument that precedes theihread may be prevented from doing the least injury to the upper bypuncturing or even marking it, audit is obvious that I can place the stitch so that its face shall appear on either side of the sole by simply reversin g the Shoe.

Bymy invention it is further Obvious that boots or Shoes ot' thc most expensive styles of hand-Work maybe 'made with marked economy and in a perfect mannerfor example, such as are called by the trade Scotch bottoms.77

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters'Patent, isi The new article ot' manufacture, constituting a boot or shoe made substantially in the manner described.

Y FRANCIS `D. BALLOU.

Witnesses:

A. Gr. TREADWELL, WM. N. SNOW. 

